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HOLYOKE, MA – Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal joined local business leaders at The Log Cabin in Holyoke to celebrate the success of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) across the First Congressional District of Massachusetts. Newly released information from the SBA outlines that the First District of Massachusetts received… Read more »

This morning, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) convened a listening session to hear directly from Americans receiving Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) who need the lifeline extended to make ends meet during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) and many other Ways and Means Democrats… Read more »

Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal highlighted significant victories for western and central Massachusetts, and other communities across America in H.R. 7608, the first “minibus” of fiscal year 2021 appropriations bills, which passed the House on July 24 and H.R. 7617, the second “minibus” of fiscal year 2021 appropriations bills, which passed the House on July… Read more »

(WWLP) – The federal program that is currently providing more than 30 million unemployed Americans with an extra $600 per week expires Friday. As of now, leaders on Capitol Hill aren’t on the same page on a new plan to help those struggling financially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both sides agree that help is needed but they can’t decide how to move forward. Chairman… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), Congressman Richard E. Neal (MA-01), Congressman Tom Malinowski (NJ-07), Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02) introduced the Scenic Trail Viewshed Protection Act. This legislation will help protect our national scenic trails by requiring stricter evaluation of natural gas pipeline projects that seek to cross… Read more »

Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the 55th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing Medicare and Medicaid into law: “Medicare and Medicaid are vital programs that allow seniors, disabled Americans, and low-income individuals to afford the health care they need to survive. These programs don’t only… Read more »

AT A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING on Wednesday, the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home was held up as a model – a model of what can go wrong when an odd state-federal relationship leaves gaps in who exactly is responsible for the home. The COVID-19 outbreaks at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home and other veterans’ homes throughout the country have spurred calls for the US Department… Read more »

(As prepared for delivery) Thank you, M/ Speaker. I rise today with great sadness to say a few words on the life of my friend and colleague, John Lewis. John was the bravest, yet most gentle person I ever met. He nearly lost his life in pursuit of justice and confronted some of the darkest facets of our society, but he never lost his faith in what America could become. His… Read more »

HOLYOKE (CBS) – The former superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home spoke before Congress Wednesday. Paul Barabani retired in 2016, and he said he warned of a lack of proper staffing in the home. “I often ask what if they had listened to my requests for additional staff and the creation of individual rooms in the renovation? How many of these deaths may… Read more »

Members of Congress and the Trump administration differed on “where the buck stops” for veterans nursing facilities during a committee hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill, but most agreed the coronavirus emerged as a teachable moment of the most costly magnitude. The disease has claimed the lives of at least 40,000 in nursing homes across the nation, including 76 at the… Read more »